William Saroyan was an Armenian-American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is his native Fresno, the center of Armenian immigrant life in California. Some of his best-known works are The Time of Your Life, My Name Is Aram and My Heart's in the Highlands.
Background
Ethnicity:
Saroyan was born in 1908 in Fresno, California, to a poor family of Armenian immigrants.
Saroyan, William was born on August 31, 1908 in Fresno. Son of Armenak and Takoohi (Saroyan) S. (of Bitlis, Armenia).
Education
Educated public schools, Fresno, California.
Career
He started as a postman and no one of his relatives couldn't imagine that there will be a day, when this name will be mentioned among the American writers such as Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, and Caldwell.
Works
book
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Inhale and Exhale
My Name is Aram
Here Comes, There Goes You Know Who
Not Dying
Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon
Places Where I've Done Time
novel
The Human Comedy
Rock Wagram
The Laughing Matter
Connections
Married Carol Marcus, February 1943 (divorced November 1949). Children: Aram, Lucy.